Google has released a new spam update, the October 2023 spam update. This update goes after cloaking, hacked, auto-generated, and scraped spam. But those sites written in Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, and other languages should see this more than maybe those in English languages. This update will take a few weeks to roll out. […]
Google announced that Site names now work in all languages, not just English, French, Japanese, and German. That was really the only change Google announced with Site names yesterday – so there you have it. Google said, “Today, we’re happy to announce that site names are now available in all languages where Google Search is […]
Google has added the specific languages the Google Search translated search results feature works for to its support documentation. Specifically, Google added a “feature availability” section and moved some content around on the page. It says, “Currently, Google may translate results into the following languages: Bengali, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, […]
Google can show your business address in more than one language within Google Maps and the Google local search results. So if you have a hotel, Google might be able to show the address both in English and the local language, like French in our example below. This was spotted by Stefan Somborac who noticed […]
Google’s John Mueller said lesser-used or known languages published on the web are not considered low-quality content just because they are lesser known. He said on mastodon “Good content is good content” no matter what language it is written in. Daniel Mealo asked, “Does the best recommendation at present become to deindex such pages with […]
YouTube has announced a range of new tweaks and updates, which are actually fairly significant, in different ways, but particularly if you’re looking to make Shorts a focus heading into the new year. First off, YouTube’s giving shorts creators to capacity to choose a frame from their clip as their thumbnail within the Shorts creation […]
Google key moments is a feature where Google Search highlights the sections in a video through a chapter-like interface. Google added support SeekToAction markup for videos on your site, so that you can use the SeekToAction markup to communicate the key moments (timestamps) Google shows for videos in Google Search in 2021. Now, Google has […]
Google seems to be testing or launching, showing dual people also ask boxes in the Google Search results. One people also ask box is in English and, in this case, the other is in Hindi. This was spotted by Chanda Verma on Twitter who posted this screenshot showing it in action (click to enlarge it): […]
Google’s John Mueller is able to see and identify content search related spam without even speaking the language. Supposedly this is not a magical power or even that hard to do by someone who was trained to catch spam, but nevertheless, he is able to spot spammy content in languages he does not understand. How […]
Google’s John Mueller confirmed in the SEO hangout on December 31st that if you have multiple versions of your website (on the same domain name) and one version is rated as good quality by Google and the other version is rated as poor quality by Google, the bad one Quality is version can have a […]